'I didn't choose to be raped by Danny Masterson,' Jane Doe #1 told the court at the actor's sentencing.
They described in graphic detail how Masterson “drugged and raped” them between 2001 and 2003 at his Hollywood Hills home. They described the fallout they suffered after they accused an “untouchable” member of the“I didn’t choose to be born into Scientology, just as I didn’t choose to be raped by Danny Masterson,” one of the accusers, identified at trial as Jane Doe #1, said in her statement.
Nevertheless, all three women were allowed to submit sentencing statements to the court Thursday before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo sentenced Masterson.Jane Doe #1 told the court her mother, who remains a Scientologist, has shunned her since she told police 20 years ago that Masterson raped her. She said she broke the church’s “code” by speaking out against an “untouchable” like Masterson.
“And the ugly truth is I didn’t want to live,” she said. “I remember crying myself to sleep and wishing I would not wake up.” “But healing is not some linear, simple thing,” she said. “The lasting effects of rape are pernicious as they hack silently away at the daily efforts one tries to make toward a life with meaning. “
“In my heart, I had no choice but to come forward,” she said. “And because of already having been threatened with Scientology’s strict policies against reporting members to law enforcement, and deliberately being shown their extensive policies in exacting ruinous punishment on defectors who speak out against its prized members— I decided to report my rape to law enforcement anyway, with the full understanding that my life could be demolished again in a new way for doing so.
Jane Doe #3 told the court that she regularly wrestled with this question: “How can I tell anyone that I had gotten myself in a situation where I was regularly mentally and emotionally abused, and raped repeatedly?”
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